Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: category version limited to digits and dots

[Milan Cvetkovic]

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Milan Cvetkovic wrote:
> I appologize if I am repeating myself, but somehow I feel that people 
> are misunderstanding what I initially wanted, and its value.
>
> When I look at someone's archive, including mine, the first thing I do 
> is "tla abrowse" with no parameters at all. This prints out the archive, 
> sorted by three components cat/branch/ver.
>
> I do not like the fact that I would see branches for different releases 
> intermingled together. This is why I wanted to use the middle field as 
> the version and the last component as the branch name - so it would be 
> "proj/ver/branch.
>
> To ilustrate my point, I included partial content of 
> address@hidden archive - parts related to "tla" (no offense 
> here, I am not saying that there is anything wrong with organization of 
> this archive, I just want to ilustrate how I would like to be able to 
> organize mine).
>
> One file is partial output of "tla abrowse address@hidden"
> The other file is what I would prefer to see (and have in archive!).
> ( I hope attachments make it to the list :-) )
>
> Why do I prefer it this way?
> - I have bugs to fix
> - I have features to add.
>
> For each of bugs/features I would add a branch, for and only for the 
> release where it aplies. I would have many branches, but they would only 
> show up in the output for applicable version (and nested accordingly).
>
> The truth is that abrowse with limit and rbrowse with regex would 
> potentialy give me the output that I want, but the things are *not* 
> organized that way in the archive itself, and I don't like that... and I 
> cannot organize the archive "my way" because of this limitation :-(
>
> I was looking into removing this limitation, and wanted to know what the 
> real reasons behind it were, to assess the chances of my patch ever 
> going through. I hope I did explain what I wanted - but if there is no 
> will in the community for this patch, I wouldn't do it...
>
> Regards, Milan.
>
>
> James Blackwell wrote:
>
> > In lists.arch.users, you wrote:
> >
> > > So, I want to say "lets see all the branches project release v1"
> > >
> > > $ tla abrowse project--v1
> > >   project
> > >     project--v1-release
> > >       project--v1-release--1.0
> > >         ...
> > >       project--v1-release--1.1
> > >         ...
> > >
> > > but wait, I didn't want v1.1 - I only wanted v1 !
> >
> >
> >
> > Does "tla rbrowse project--v1-" do it for you? (A more exact regex would
> > be "tla rbrowse ^project--v1-.*")
> >
> >
> > > Now if I do:
> > > tla abrowse, I would like to group branches related to devo-3.0 or 
> > > stable-2.0. Nobody is interested any more for 1.0 and its patches - 
> > > it is in the archive for historical reasons.
> >
> >
> >
> > "tla rbrowse --devo-3\.0--", "tla rbrowse --stable-2\.0"
> >
> >
> > Rbrowse was built to solve *exactly* these sorts of problems. ;)

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